Kerrianne Covell who hails from Norton on Teesside has been on the journey of her dreams since the age of 12. Having won a competition in 2013 with the region’s favourite and biggest radio station TFM, Kerrianne performed at the Metro Radio Arena as the champion of their Big Audition. Supporting the likes of Pixie … Read more
We’ll be opening with a Bullfrog number with Sless on vocals. How cool is that, only took us 42 years to get around to it. Gigs announced soon.
Steve Thompson Band reaches a Milestone We’ve been rehearsing in Middlesbrough since February and the band is really starting to sound good. It took so long because firstly, I’ve not played in 15 years and I was well rusty. Secondly, the material presents such an eclectic range that we’ve had to work really hard to get … Read more
In 1983 I was asked to write English lyrics for the Italian finalist in Eurovision. I was up against the wire and had to do this really quickly. As I was working Tommy Morrison rang me and said, “what are you up to” (as he often did). I told him what I was doing and … Read more
Dean Stockdale has joined us on Keyboards. The picture now featuring Dean is the CD that gets distributed around collaborators. It just never worked out with Les Watts – conflicting schedules and location of rehearsals took their toll. However, I’m sure Les will pop up later in another part of the project. Now we’re steaming … Read more
Last night one of the songs we rehearsed was “Paris By Air” which was a hit single for the Tygers of Pan Tang and also on the top 20 album “The Cage”. The signature guitar intro is gone because we’re doing a new arrangement in a different key to work for Lorraine Crosby. Now not … Read more